Shopping is not yet over, especially with trend of having this end of season sale, January is not the month that we end in buying cool items with great deals, but also a way of taking the advantage of renovation sale just like this ongoing sale by Bree bags, they are having their own Renovation Sale this January 12 - 19, 2012, grab a deal of all items with 50% off. Visit their branch in Podium mall.

The famous German brand Bree offers both classic and modern designs, and has won numerous design awards including International Leathergoods Award 2009, Ok! Style Award 2010 and other various international awards. Using top quality material, Bree bags are practical, attractive and durable. Bree’s range of products includes business and leisure bags with all necessary accessories (wallets, change purses, etc.), and a complete travel collection.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Katy Perry is coming to the Philippines! Here's your chance to get 2
tickets to see her California Dreams Tour live at the Mall of Asia
Concert Grounds! All you have to do is answer 6 simple questions about
the blogger known as Azrael! Doesn't get any easier than this! So what
are you waiting for? Start guessing!
For those who want to know Azrael better, you can check out his website:

Last night was the 1st ever bloggers conference event with Mikey Bustos, all of us were introduced to Mikey Bustos, the man behind that YouTube tutorials about pinoy stuff, he also shared to us his endorsement for Chicharon ni Mang Juan by Jack n Jill. Here are our photos from last night's event. Thanks everyone for coming and for the support to Mikey!

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

I haven't bought a new shirt last year 2011, you know that I buy DA shirts every year whenever they have new designs and release, well, its a way of supporting their site and for giving us a great venue for storing and sharing arts worldwide.

Nike's new running shoes for this 2012, the "LunarEclipse+ 2 " was released inline with their 2012 Spring Collection. The LunarEclipse+ 2 is a remodeled design adapating to new features and also using the old LunarEclipse shoe feature, that includes the cushioning and the lightweightness of the shoe. The most interesting part of the LunarEclipse+ 2 is the introduction of the "Dynamic Fit Technology". (more below)

Nike Philippines announced the availability of their Spring 2012 collection in all stores here in Manila, one of the new added Nike wearables are the vapor jackets. These vapor jackets are so lightweight and if you wear it you can feel that you are wearing nothing, it is designed for runners who don't stop running and practicing even if there's a slight rain or heavy downpour, it protects the wearer of the vapor jackets from rain splashes and powerful winds. (More below)

Our friends from the Fashion Marketing Executive of Ensembles, Freeway, Solo and 22BC just informed me that they will launch this awesome contest and the prize is an all expense paid trip for two to Boracay, a special summer getaway after the stressful holiday. This promo is not yet posted officially on their website and Facebook and that info will be uploaded in a few days, but here's an info posted in my blog to make you prepare and gather all those photos or even create your own photo shoot as entry for the contest, just don't forget to wear your favorite Ensembles outfit (details below)

I just received an invitation from UNO Magazine in partnership with Naomi jewelry, its a benefit fashion show for World Vision, they are inviting individuals and company to join and sponsor this event, you may read the invitation below.

Good day,

To open year 2012 and to usher in the Year of the Dragon, UNO Magazine
in partnership with Naomi Jewelry bring you RENAISSANCE WOMEN, a benefit
fashion show for World Vision. Naomi will be launching a limited
edition World Vision piece which will be sold in
Naomi stores. Proceeds of the sales of the pieces will be donated to
World Vision.

RENAISSANCE WOMAN is set on Feb. 3, 2012, at the Genting Club, Resorts World Manila.

With this, we would like to invite you to be part of this event.
Attached are our packages. Kindly let us know if you wish to work with
us in this project.

Thank you very much and Happy Dragon Year to you!

I won't post the packages here, just contact me if you are interested to join and I can forward you to the people organizing this show, I just don't have a big budget to meet the (big) package rate. But I like to help and hope someone in there are willing to sponsor the show.

The Queen of all kinds of Media - Kris Aquino just revealed her "true love" on live television and if you are wondering about what's the buzz, the tv teaser appeared on the 1st week of January 2012 and I didn't even noticed on what its all about, maybe because the TV ad didn't captured my attention and its all just a short teaser, I just noticed it after I posted that video here in my blog via YouTube and thanks to that cute and beautiful contact person in helping me understand what it is all about.

It will be better if they used some kind of tv interview expose sort of like the one they do for The Buzz, and speaking of the tv showbiz talk show - The Buzz, they got an exclusive interview with Kris Aquino and there she revealed that the one true love of her life (for this year) is the yummy "San Marino Chili Corned Tuna", I even ran to the living room to watch tv to see that tv commercial.

yes! its a canned good and not a real person
but I love the chili corned tuna of San Marino, and I agree that it has less oil and more tuna to munch with a hot steamy rice and a nice cold softdrinks..ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh sarap nun grabe. It has Omega-3 DHA which is good for the heart, as the label says. (more below)

"Unforgivable" is a photo exhibit and fashion show featuring the
hottest faces in town stripped off everything, this is a campaign by
STRIP: Ministry of Waxing for PETA, A photo exhibit by Miguel Miranda
and a fashion show by Wanderlust.

You can see the video teaser above on who will be the model that will be
stripped off, wearing nothing for this photo exhibit and also fashion
show this coming Jan 12, 2012 at Prive Luxury Club at 9PM.

If you love art photos, fashion and support the campaigns of PETA then come and visit this event.
Just let me know if you want to attend to see the photo exhibit and fashion show.

Monday, January 09, 2012

View The 2012 Procession of the Black Nazarene in a larger map
via GMA
Here's the route map of the Black Nazarene procession in Manila, its great that they used the old route and like from last year, the streets will be occupied again by millions of devotees and hundred of tourist. Every year I attend the mass in Quiapo church and then eat in a nice Chinese resto nearby and carry the mission of taking photos and video of the procession.

Sunday, January 08, 2012

Venice Piazza at Mckinley Hill brought back again the super food adventure style! Foodies will get a chance to taste the food of not only one resto but around 12 resto for only P600. Read the mechanics below on how you can start your food adventure with your friends and family. I've tried this before and super busog kami lahat.

The Big Binondo Food Wok is very popular to some travelers, foodies and foreigners, I remember years ago that I spotted that tour when I'm doing a photo walk shoot in Binondo and spotted Ivan Man Dy for the 1st time carrying some photos of old Manila, speaking on a mini microphone and carrying a small speaker and infront of him - a big crowd of people listening to him, taking notes, taking photos and videos and then they follow Ivan where ever he may go, the people with him are mostly foreigners and pinoys.

Then after sometime it reminded me that there's this walking tour headed by Ivan and its a guided tour on foot around Binondo and also around Manila, and this tour is called "Old Manila Walks". Thanks to the internet, social media sites, tv features and articles on the newspaper, the tour became popular and its a must experience thing to everyone, because history about Manila is not fully published on books or encyclopedia, but there are new researchers who are very updated on the history of Manila and they are willing to share this knowledge to everyone by having a creative style of having a little adventure with the Ivan the tour guide of Old Manila Walks.

more photo and story below about BIG Binondo Food WOK (Chinese New Year Edition)

Here's a perfect meal for the super robot OTAKU, I just saw this burger line of Sumo Sam in their menu when we ate in their Shangri La Plaza branch few months ago, its funny that they used super robot names to label their burger meal, they have two kinds - Anime burgers and Roboto Dogs. I haven't tried eating one set of meal because we ordered sukiyaki and some sushi that day. I'm so curious of this "Mazinger Z Chili" burger will make me scream breasttto fire!!!!

I just learned the news few hours ago after watching a tech show that I downloaded on the net and this is one serious plan of our internet giants to do a nuclear blackout rally for ONE DAY to stop SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act), a proposed bill in the US to fight online trafficking of copyrighted infringement anywhere online, that affects everyone online, from Google search, to social media sites, to YouTube uploads and etc.

The US Senate will have a debate this coming January 23 and then on the 24th it will be the day that everyone on the higher seat will totally agree to release SOPA as a law and like a Kraken to destroy all online materials that are generated by us users.

Thanks to some individuals who raised their hands and not to support SOPA, and threaten a global internet and social media black out on Jan 23rd.

"While the majority of companies and individuals who profit off of
content production have lobbied for and are supportive of SOPA, the
largest tech companies in the world are vehemently opposed to the new
piece of legislation. 87% of the Wikipedia users polled were in support
of Jimmy Wales’ idea to initiate an “Internet blackout.”

Since that time, the “nuclear option” has gained popularity and would
likely have the support of 15 large tech companies including: Google,
Facebook PayPal, Wikipedia, Twitter, & Amazon. Although there has
not been a formal decision to temporarily shut down some of the most
used sites on the Internet, the most likely date for it to occur is
January 23rd – the day before the Senate reconsiders SOPA." - Search Engine Journal

There's no definite time when will the nuclear black out will occur, even that we are not covered by the SOPA here in our country, but the internet giants that we always use and rely will be greatly affected and it will create a massive nuclear reaction to users and maybe to other businesses. If SOPA is approved, then we should be careful and maybe start having our own Google, Facebok, Twitter and etc. just to have our own freedom, I just hope that SOPA will just die even before Jan. 23rd.

Its a big list...and If the nuclear blackout is confirmed..then it is still early for me to encash my money in Paypal, I wonder if Blogspots are affected since this is under Google, hmm I should back up my archives before the nuclear black out day.

About SOPA
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), also known as H.R. 3261, is a bill that was introduced in the United States House of Representatives on October 26, 2011, by Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) and a bipartisan group of 12 initial co-sponsors. The bill expands the ability of U.S. law enforcement and copyright holders to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods.[2] Now before the House Judiciary Committee, it builds on the similar PRO-IP Act of 2008 and the corresponding Senate bill, the PROTECT IP Act.[3]

The originally proposed bill would allow the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as copyright holders, to seek court orders against websites accused of enabling or facilitating copyright infringement. Depending on who requests the court orders, the actions could include barring online advertising networks and payment facilitators such as PayPal from doing business with the allegedly infringing website, barring search engines from linking to such sites, and requiring Internet service providers to block access to such sites. The bill would make unauthorized streaming of copyrighted content a crime, with a maximum penalty of five years in prison for 10 pieces of music or movies within six months. The bill also gives immunity to Internet services that voluntarily take action against websites dedicated to infringement, while making liable for damages any copyright holder who knowingly misrepresents that a website is dedicated to infringement.[4]

I don't know if everyone know about this, we should watch and throw on a big spotlight in the US as the internet nation are having a big battle in their lives contra SOPA, it will be a big change if ever SOPA is approved and everyone can no longer use any materials or even borrow photos, videos, or any copyrighted content for our blogs.

Both bills are intended to help put a stop to foreign websites that
illegally post, and sometimes sell, intellectual property from the
United States. Federal law-enforcement agencies would be empowered to
shut down those sites and cut off advertising and online payments to
them. - CNN

There's also goodness of the SOPA, this can stop selling and distribution online of all kinds of counterfeit goods and digital media, but I'm not sure if everyone is in favor if digital media like movies, mp3 and etc to be considered. There's no actual written or confirmed news about this social media blackout, but its already a news that circulates and maybe the next morning we wake up, everything is offline.

I just wondered...can we live for a day without Google, Facebook, Twitter, Paypal, Yahoo!, Foursquare, and etc.... and hey! why is it that Friendster is not listed ???

If the blackout occurs, then you can find us hanging out in PLURK or MULTIPLY heehehe

The blogger

Azrael Coladilla is the blogger of Azrael's Merryland. This blog started as a personal blog in 2003, and then converted the blog into a lifeblog about his interest and reporting about pop culture, lifestyle, entertainment, technology, food, travel, toys, outdoor adventure, internet and social media. Awarded as the 2009 Most Influential Blogger for Luzon, Philippines, awarded by the Philippine Blog Awards. He is a full time blogger and photographer and freelance events organizer, social media specialist and marketing consultant. He is the founder of several online communities - Manila Bloggers Network, PBNetwork PH, Oh My Food! community, Cavite Bloggers, and Philippine ToyCon. He loves traveling, eating, watch movies, meet new people, photography and collects Transformers toys.

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